The Best Part

I really only like the first 3 weeks of American Idol. When people try out, and most of them are whack jobs. But yes, there will always be good singer highlights (i.e. the blind dude, the guy with the really dangerous job, the girl named "Lil' Rounds"), but we obviously tune in for the car crashes. But I think I want to add a new reason to watch the try-out weeks on American Idol: the jokes my girlfriend can say during the episode that I think are insanely funny. 

When this guy came on screen:

She said, "That looks like the Indian Ray Ramano. It's like 'Everybody Loves Kumar.'" 

Hey, I thought it was funny. And now I can tell you to check out Petewentz.com for another sneak at a limited edition new hoodie dropping at relaunch.

Shoutout to Lafayette Elementary in Holly Grove

You might think my favorite part of Lil' Wayne's new interview in GQ is when he calls Pete,

"Pete Weiss" at first (isn't Pete Weiss my accountant's name?), or the fact that Terry

Richardson, my favorite photographer took the shots. You might even assume my favorite

part is when he says his favorite book is a dictionary or that he doesn't remember the full

name of the director who he just did a film with (so don't feel bad, Pete Weiss). Some might

also think my favorite excerpt is when he says he can't watch movies with Dakota Fanning

in them because she's creepy or when he's shocked he liked "Butterfly Effect" because

Ashton is "usually an asshole." Hell, some might even predict that my favorite part is him

explaining he gave Michael Phelps an entire iPod of unreleased Lil' Wayne music (even one

song made especially for Phelps) or that he references Bruce Springsteen pulling

Courtney Cox on stage for the "Dancing in the Dark" video. Well, truth is, everyone would

be correct.

See more of the pictures and read the incredible interview by CLICKING HERE.

Baby Baby

The first post-Bronx Clandestine Baby piece. For the little monsters.

February and the Relaunch is just around the corner. Man, I hope toddlers have credit cards.

Slow and Low

Outside of running Clandestine Industries and it's ever so imminent relaunch, I also co-own Gallery 1988 (gallery1988.com), and more specifically am the Gallery Director for the the Los Angeles location, where we recently held Pete and Travis's exhibit, "Without You I'm Just Me," so don't act like you don't know. Last Thursday night, we opened an art show that I'm uber proud of called, "Under The Influence: The Official Art Tribute To Beastie Boys," where, with the blessing of the actual band, 100 pieces of art were created solely influenced by the Boys' songs, lyrics, videos and style. This is our second exhibition in the "Under The Influence" series, as last year artists paid tribute to comic book legend Stan Lee in their very own styles. Well, this year's opening reception honoring the Brooklyn pioneers, Mike D, Ad-Rock and MCA, was an enormous smash hit, with a line around the block and selling tons of original and inspiring art pieces. With a portion of the proceeds benefiting The Gramercy Housing Project, a charity chosen by the band, I wanted to share some of the pieces with you guys. So here we go with some choice pieces I've selected.

Casey Weldon (giving the Biz some love outside of Yo! Gabba Gabba)

Jeff Ramirez 

Alex Pardee (you know him from The Used)

Ellen Schinderman (Needlepoint, bitches) 

Martin Hsu 

Jason D'Aquino (purchased by PW) 

Jonathan Bergeron 

Jen Rarey

Dan Goodsell (of Mr. Toast fame) 

Shepard Fairey (of TIME Magazine fame. I bought this one)

For those in LA, the show will be up until January 29th, but if you want you can check the mic, or the entire show of like 80 more pieces, by CLICKING HERE.

 

Buttons

As I plan on letting off some serious steam tonight by seeing a 3-D showing of "Bolt" (for the second time), I'm eagerly anticipating the next time I can see a new cartoon movie in 3 dimensions (don't suggest NBC's "Chuck" on Superbowl Sunday). And we've already talked about Coraline here on Clandestinish, but what about these:

Nike and the film "Coraline" are teaming up on this incredibly awesome collaboration Dunk, and although I don't know much about the movie, it seems these are loosely based on the way the characters are designed, even down to the button eyes. BUT they sadly seem to be only producing 1,000 pairs, so I hope Nike can't tell the difference between Pete's and my voice. 

(phone rings)

"Hey, this is Pete Wentz from the band Fall Out Boy. I'd love a pair of those Coraline shoes so my wife Ashlee Simpson can see them. Oh, my voice sounds deep? I have a whooping cough. OH, what size do I need? A 12? I'm way taller in real life."

(hang up)

sometimes...

...i find random things laying around the house. last night i caught rigby getting a little snuggly with this furry baby bear hoodie. details on these to come soon i'm sure.

prince: my hero

i've always been overly fascinated by artists that are prolific but borderline crazy (eg. r. kelly, morrissey) but no one can really trump prince. most people have heard the pickup basketball game at paisley park story from chappelle's show but kevin smith probably wins for most thorough, crazybrains prince story told on record.









anyhow, prince recently shut down his fan club site and had attempted to have all prince-related youtube content removed from existence. then comes word today that his NEW site will be going online this month along with streaming versions of some of his best new work in years. what is going on with this guy?